Portuguese Jewish Communities Around the World: The Past and The Present

Описание: What a wonderful and touching meeting the Embassy of Portugal, Washington D.C. and SHIN-DC convened on October 22, 2020  with Portuguese Jewish communities around the world. Many thanks to representatives by country/region from the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, the Caribbean, and Portugal who spoke about their connections to Portugal today, as well as their histories and present. Many thanks to H.E. Domingos Fezas Vital, Ambassador of Portugal to the USA. Participants joined us from many countries across 6 continents, esplêndido!

Everyone who has registered for this important meeting beforehand or after the fact will receive the recording. REGISTRATION LINK (FREE): https://shindc.org/shinsbn/portugal2020/

PROGRAM
*00:09 Franz Afraim Katzir, Director, SEPHARDIC HERITAGE INTERNATIONAL in DC (SHIN DC) – Welcome
*1:28 H.E. Ambassador Domingos Fezas Vital, Ambassador of Portugal to the USA - Opening Remarks
REPRESENTATIVES OF PORTUGUESE JEWISH COMMUNITIES BY COUNTRY/REGION
*15:27 Nachshon Rodrigues Pereira, Head of the Bendigamos Community, Amsterdam, Netherlands
*22:07 Rabbi Joseph Dweck, Senior Rabbi of the S&P Community of the U.K., London, United Kingdom
*34:50 Rabbi Albert Gabbai, Mikveh Israel, Synagogue of the American Revolution, Philadelphia, USA
*45:43 Rabbi Maimon Pinto and Hazzan Daniel Benlolo, The Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue Shearith Israel, Montreal, Canada
*53:30/54:49 René David Levy Maduro (54:49), former President of Mikvé Israel-Emanuel Synagogue "Snoa" and Phyllis Meit (53:30), Curator of the Jewish Cultural Historical Museum adjacent to the Snoa, Willemstad, Curaçao/Caribbean
*1:05:00 José Oulman Bensaude Carp, President of the Jewish Community of Lisbon (Comunidade Israelita de Lisboa), Lisbon, Portugal
*1:16:00 Dr. Judith Cohen, Performer and Ethnomusicologist – Portuguese and Sephardic Music and the Legacy of Crypto-Jews
*1:23:30/1:25:07 Al’Fado, Gal Tamir (1:23:30) and Diogo Melo de Carvalho (1:25:07) – Encounters of Ladino (Sephardic) and Fado (A Portuguese Genre of Music)
*1:25:55 Franz Afraim Katzir, Director, SHIN – Closing
*1:27:15 Music – Al'Fado Selections, (1) “Avre tu puerta cerrada” Open your closed door (fado/Ladino); (2) “Lisboa menina e moça” Lisbon, girl and young woman (fado/Portuguese)

*1:34:44 Participants greeting each other

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